potato-blight

Nations, pending the discharge of its more important functions, were to offer rewards for world-benefiting discoveries such as a prophylactic against potato-blight.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 Various 1898

There was a caricature of him in "Punch," as the real potato-blight.

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

When the potato-blight came, they died by thousands.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885

The potato-blight was, at that time, assigned as the chief cause of the readiness to emigrate; for it damaged seriously the growth of a vegetable, from the sale of which, at the

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856